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  • Sausalito, Mill Valley, Strawberry Point

    Birding in Marin, Season 9, Trip 2
    Saturday, February 3, 2024
    8:30 AM to 3:30 PM
    Birding with Jim White and Bob Battagin
    Register HERE for this Field Trip

    Registration opens Wednesday, January 24 at 8 AM.

    We are going to explore the bay from the Sausalito water front to the Golden Gate and Richardson’s Bay around to Strawberry Point and on to Blacky’s pasture in Tiburon. Many ducks, loons and grebes winter on the bay waters and we may find close comparative looks at similar species pairs like Eared and Horned or Clark’s and Western Grebes, of Red-throated, Pacific and Common Loons or Greater and Lesser Scaup. We are likely to find some shorebirds too, perhaps a Spotted Sandpiper or a rather rare Wandering Tattler.

    Herring runs happen around this time of year and if we are lucky they will still be numerous. Herring deposit large numbers of eggs on eelgrass, which water birds, especially gulls, love to feast on. Last year near this time I think that 10 species of gulls were located. So brush up on your gull IDs and join Bob and I along the shore.

    DIRECTIONS: Meet at the east end of Harbor Drive. Handicap Accessible. We will park where the birding is close, near level and smooth. Thanks to enlightened development planning, Harbor Drive and the rather posh Strawberry spit have fine public shoreline paths. 

  • Snowy Plovers

    Zoom Event CA, United States

    Thursday, February 8, 2024
    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
    Speaker: Matthew Lau, U.S. National Park Service
    Register HERE for this Speaker Series

    Topic:
    There is a small but locally significant breeding population of western snowy plovers at Point Reyes National Seashore. They are federally listed as Threatened and California state listed as a Species of Special Concern, but the local breeding population size has been gradually increasing over the past half decade due to intensive management and monitoring across the range. Matt will present on the fascinating breeding biology of western snowy plovers, cover local conservation issues that snowy plovers face, and review local population trends and ongoing research and management at Point Reyes National Seashore.

  • Winter Birds of the Delta – Boat Trip

    Sunday, February 18th, 2024 - Rescheduled from 2/4 due to bad weather
    8:40 AM to 4:00 PM
    Birding with David Wimpfheimer
    Register HERE for this Boat Trip

    The trip costs $130. Registration for this trip opens January 8 at 8 AM.
    A waitlist will open if the trip sells out. Add your name to the list by clicking Contact Organizer prompt. You may cancel your ticket for a refund until 9AM on February 2nd by clicking Contact Organizer on the Ticketbud site and leaving a message.

  • Tomales Bay State Park

    Wednesday, February 28, 2024
    10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
    Birding with Rich Cimino
    Register HERE for this field trip

    Registration required. Registration opens February 18th at 8 AM.

    As we bird the trails of the State Park on this field trip, we will also discuss the Forest Health & Fire Resilience management plan for the California State Parks.

  • Mt. Tam and Corte Madera Marshes

    Birding in Marin - Season 9, Trip 3
    Saturday, March 2, 2024
    8:30 AM to mid-afternoon
    Birding with Jim White and Bob Battagin
    Register HERE for this field trip

    Registration opens Wednesday, February 21st at 8 AM.

    Mount Tamalpais, rising like an icon above Marin, hosts some birds uncommonly seen in the rest of the county such as Pileated Woodpecker, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Purple Finch, Red Crossbill, and in the winter, 1 or 2 Townsend’s Solitaire.

  • The Ponds at Las Gallinas Valley Sanitary District

    Thursday, March 7, 2024
    8:30 AM to 12:00 PM
    Birding with Sande and Bob Chilvers

    No registration required.  All participants are welcome to join this trip.

    Join old friends and meet new ones on our regularly scheduled walks on the first Thursday of the month at Las Gallinas. We welcome bird enthusiasts of all levels, especially beginning birders, on this leisurely walk around the ponds. Special thanks to Bob and Sande Chilvers for volunteering once again to lead our monthly walks in search of waterfowl, waders, songbirds, raptors, and shorebirds. Among other birds, we will see various species of rails, swallows and teals.

  • Re-discovering and Conserving the Black-Naped Pheasant-Pigeon, A Critically Endangered Species

    Thursday, March 14, 2024
    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
    Speaker: Jordan Boersma, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
    Register HERE for this speaker series

    Topic:
    Jordan will discuss the Black-naped Pheasant-Pigeon, a critically endangered species that hasn’t been documented by scientists since it was first described in 1882. In 2022, Jordan and his team embarked on an expedition to Fergusson Island, Papua New Guinea, and by leveraging the natural history knowledge of local hunters, was able to confirm the existence of this species, known locally as Auwo., thus demonstrating the invaluable role of Indigenous communities in ongoing efforts to relocate species lost to Western science. Plans are to build on the partnerships formed in 2022 to help conserve this elusive and culturally important species and continue to uncover natural history information about Auwo and other endemic taxa on Fergusson island.

  • Rodeo Lagoon – Marin Headlands

    Thursday, March 7, 2024
    8:30 AM to 12:00 PM
    Birding with Sande and Bob Chilvers

    No registration required.  All participants are welcome to join this trip.

    Join old friends and meet new ones on our regularly scheduled walks on the first Thursday of the month at Las Gallinas. We welcome bird enthusiasts of all levels, especially beginning birders, on this leisurely walk around the ponds. Special thanks to Bob and Sande Chilvers for volunteering once again to lead our monthly walks in search of waterfowl, waders, songbirds, raptors, and shorebirds. Among other birds, we will see various species of rails, swallows and teals.

  • Loch Lomond Marina – San Rafael

    SPECIAL INTRODUCTION TO BIRDING – WINTERING WATERBIRDS
    Thursday, March 21, 2024
    10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
    Birding with Roger Harris
    Register HERE for this Field Trip

    Registration required. Registration opens on March 11 at 8:00 AM

    Join Roger Harris and other Marin Audubon board members for a field trip specifically designed for people interested in getting some of the birding basics down. And there is no place better suited for that than the half-mile-long flat and paved levee path at the Loch Lomond Marina. With panoramic views of the surrounding bay, we should get close-up views of wintering waterbirds including Black Turnstones, diminutive Least Sandpipers, Black Oystercatchers with bubblegum pink legs, Snowy Egrets sporting golden slippers, and a variety of ducks, grebes, gulls, and cormorants. This is a terrific place for photography, if you like, but each participant is requested to bring binoculars.

  • The Ponds at Las Gallinas Sanitary District (LGVSD)

    Thursday, April 4, 2024
    8:30 AM to 12:00 PM
    Birding with Sande and Bob Chilvers

    No registration required.  All participants are welcome to join this trip.

    Join old friends and meet new ones on our regularly scheduled walks on the first Thursday of the month at Las Gallinas. We welcome bird enthusiasts of all levels, especially beginning birders, on this leisurely walk around the ponds. Special thanks to Bob and Sande Chilvers for volunteering once again to lead our monthly walks in search of waterfowl, waders, songbirds, raptors, and shorebirds. Among other birds, we will see various species of rails, swallows and teals.

    With overwintering birds present, we are likely to spot some interesting species, so come assist in our search. We all help each other to find and identify the birds, and there are usually several experienced birders to assist. You don’t even have to arrive on time because we spend the first 30-60 minutes studying the birds around the first pond, and our group is easy to find.